Hi,

I am a Linux lover and I enjoy trying new things with my pcs all the time. I also run Windows (XP and Vista) because I need it at work; there is one game I like that is not fully supported with Wine yet; and not all of my gadgets are fully supported by Linux on some of my pcs.
Just to give you an idea, I have 6 desktops, one laptop and one VAIO UX390 micro pc. One of my computers runs multimonitor with 3 screens and double boot: Suse 10.2 and WinXP (both OS work with the 3 screens), I also have a switch to share my flat panels with the other computers. One of my Windows PCs has a tv card and I record tv and save movies, it also works as a video server so I can watch tv wirelessly when I walk around my house carrying my micropc. I also stopped making backups of movies to CD/DVD, now I found a nice app that converts the DVDs to mp4 files that I store in USB disks that I can attach to my UX or laptop when traveling, instead of carrying my slim DVD burner (it is lightscribe, I like to create labels without having to use ink!) I haven't tried lightscribe in Linux yet, but I read it works. Another pc I have is my virtual machine server. It runs Opensuse 10.2 and my virtual machines (vmware for now, but I have tried other good opensource VMs that I will keept testing later) include Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian, Suse, CentOs, Mepis, StartCom, Mandriva and Linux from Scratch (still working on it). Oh yes, I run Windows too... as sacrificial machines (to test security holes, backdoors, trojans, etc. Two of my vm are dual boot and I test security things in Windows/Linux, my attacker machine is a Backtrack 2.0). I just recently started to learn how to read packages on the network using Wireshark. That is great when working on security and performance issues.
I have a laser printer: Samsung CLP-600N (networked) that works well in Windows, Suse and Ubuntu.
Other things I've tried:
Ubuntu 7.04 on the UX390N. It works well. Full screen, mouse, ethernet and wireless (for the wireless I had to manually run iwconfig, when using the live CD)
Here some of my preferences:
My favorite magazines: Linux Format, Linux Magazine, Hackin9 Magazine, Time Magazine.
My favorite Linux distributions/tools: System Rescue CD 0.3.3, Knoppix 5.1, Backtrack 2.0, Hackin9 Live.
My favorite desktop environment: KDE (I Like many things in Gnome too, but I like KDE better).
My favorite sports: karate (I've been in my country's national team) and I still compete (next week I go to participate in the US Nationals; I also like basketball, tennis, street hockey, snowboard, weight lifting... you name it.
Other activities I like: Traveling, 4wheeling, hiking, outdoors in general.
Well, if you want to share ideas of cool things to do in Linux, send me a note. I like to make friends and I like to play with computers... and I LOVE LINUX and Opensource!!

Welcome to LQ! You seem to be quite a busy person.

Thanks Mara, never busy enough to stop having fun!